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More than a dozen Ohio University geology students helped develop a new app that helps people identify fossils. The a free iOS app—for both iPad and iPhone—is called the “Digital Atlas of Ancient Life.” Check out the app or find it in the Apple app store. “This exciting new digital […]

By Angelita Faller Forty-nine million years ago, a freshwater bird known as Limnofregata azygosternon lived in the ancient lakes of what is now Wyoming. Leaving behind only a few skeletons, it is hard to imagine how this extinct bird once looked and lived. Thanks to the research of Ryan Felice, […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Members of Dr. Alycia Stigall’s lab—involving more than a dozen graduate and undergraduate students over the past three years—are capitalizing on a newly donated collection of Late Ordovician fossils to build a digital collection and online. The Stigall lab efforts are focused on building a […]

In her youth, Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences, made do with A Golden Guide to Fossils, but she hopes that today’s amateur fossil collectors and researchers will have at their disposal a more comprehensive guide. That’s why she and her colleagues are creating an online database—the Digital Atlas […]

Third in a series on macro-evolution. In this article, Dr. Alycia Stigall discusses the fossil record of species biodiversity—and why it might be more important to protect “intermediate” species like the Arctic Fox than “specialist” species like the Polar Bear. By Sara LaJeunesse From Perspectives Billions lie dead on the […]

“Imagine the following: A supernova explodes in the neighborhood of our solar system more than 2 million years ago, sending out a cloud of dust that eventually reaches Earth,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, in the July 14 Columbus Dispatch. Would there be evidence of this […]